Subj : Re: UTF vs specific
To   : Karel Kral
From : Eugene Subbotin
Date : Mon Sep 21 2026 06:28 pm

Hello Karel!

Sunday September 20 2026 07:54, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 MV>> That will be a waste of time and energy. Just skip that fase and
 MV>> go directly to UTF-8. That is the future for Fidonet. For the
 MV>> rest of the digital world UTF-8 already is the present.

 KK> You are (as usual) right.

 KK> Majority in r42 agreed to wait a bit longer. But that is OK.

What's there to wait for? All you need to do in R42 is accept a document that 
clearly states that the primary encoding used is UTF-8. The fallback encodings 
are CP852 (for DOS) and LATIN-2 (for Unix). All of these encodings support 
Czech and Slovak characters, so there shouldn´t be any problems. The old CP895 
is for read-only use-there´s no future in it.


Eugene

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